ROBOTICS

• Links for our own robots
• "Practical" Robots?
• US Army Bomb disposer
• Minefield sweeper
• Cye  (vacuum cleaner)
• NASA's Proposed Space Station Droids
• Novelty Robots
• tiny (CNN, Salon, slashdot)
• Robot Games, Competitions, and Contests
• CNN article on Western Regional Robot Games
• Magazines
• Robot Science and Technology (we have our own hardcopy subscription in the lab!)
• Circuit Cellar
• Research Robots
• Snakes
• Dinosaurs (Barry)
• Polypod (Russ)
• MicroRobots (ants) (Renaye)
• EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS
• Karl Sims' Amazing Creatures
• HEXAPODs
Stiquito
Gary Parker at Indiana University Adaptive Systems Lab
Other Hexapods
• the hexapode
• Mark Randall's robot
• Georgia Tech
• Max
• Microbot (neural net brain)
• Dr. Noel Rode's Strider
• Case Western Reserve University
Hexapod Walking Behaviors (gaits)
• hexapod gaits
• Neural networks as cyclic gait generators
• Other Links
• Max Base Manufacturer (Zagros Robotics)(thanks Dave, Vance)
• Mobile robot issues (slide show)
• Trilobot,    (Arrick Robotics)
• LEGO Mindstorms
• Sean's link to a great price on Mindstorms

• Furby  (gremlin)
• homestead.com/hackfurby
• Furby dissection
• Aibo  (dog, from Sony)
• Tama (cat, from Matsushita)
• NEC's Personal Robot R100

• Hans Moravec's latest book

• Even Microsoft cares
• Karl Sims' Amazing Creatures

• About.com's view of the field
• Major Research Sites
• The American Association of Artificial Intelligence  (AAAI)